diff --git a/scripts/build_awslc.sh b/scripts/build_awslc.sh
index bddcb1b1..8a17f77f 100755
--- a/scripts/build_awslc.sh
+++ b/scripts/build_awslc.sh
@@ -10,16 +10,24 @@ set -o xtrace
 # Remember where LNSym is
 LNSym_DIR=${PWD}
 
-# Install dependencies
-brew install ninja golang
+# Install dependencies\
+brew install ninja
 
-# Fetching and building AWS-LC
+GOROOT=/usr/local/go
+PATH="$GOROOT/bin:$PATH"
+GO_VERSION=1.20.1
+GO_ARCHIVE="go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
+wget "https://dl.google.com/go/${GO_ARCHIVE}" && tar -xvf $GO_ARCHIVE && \
+   mkdir $GOROOT &&  mv go/* $GOROOT && rm $GO_ARCHIVE
+
+# Fetching AWS-LC
 git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-lc.git $HOME/aws-lc --depth 1
-cd $HOME/aws-lc; mkdir aws-lc-build; cd aws-lc-build
-cmake -GNinja -DKEEP_ASM_LOCAL_SYMBOLS=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../
-ninja
+cd $HOME/aws-lc
+# Build AWS-LC
+NUM_CPU_THREADS=$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+mkdir aws-lc-build; cd aws-lc-build
+cmake -Gninja -DKEEP_ASM_LOCAL_SYMBOLS=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../
+make -j${NUM_CPU_THREADS}
 
 # Move crypto_test to LNSym
 cp -f crypto/crypto_test ${LNSym_DIR}/Tests/ELFParser/Data/crypto_test
-
-cd ${LNSym_DIR}